1. Air vs. Land vs. Sea Tactics: Review Posters
In order to review over the land, sea and air tactics, weaponry and operations of WWII in Europe, you will create a review poster in a group.
This can be simple! Do not need to do pictures, graphs, charts…..yet…..
Summarize MAIN ideas for review!
Use book, operations worksheet, video clip notes, weapon research, etc.
Will be used as review before we transition to Pacific

2. What should you include???
Overall tactics/strategies
Allied strengths/weaknesses
Axis strengths/weaknesses
Important technological/military developments
How this impacted key operations in Europe
How this impacted WWII

3. Events leading to Germany’s Surrender
End of WWII in Europe
Events leading to Germany’s Surrender

4. Allied Victories: 1943-1945 January 1943: USSR victory at Stalingrad
May 1943: Allies win back North Africa
July 1943: Allies land in Sicily and push North into Italy
June 1944: D-Day
June 1944: Mussolini is overthrown

5. Battle of the Bulge December 1944 – Jan 1945
Germany’s last offensive attack
Invaded Belgium and created a “bulge” in Allied defense lines
Largest American death toll
Germans lost and were pushed back

8. FDR’s Death FDR was elected to his 4th term in 1944; with a new VP
After 12 years in office and four presidential terms, FDR died on April 12, 1945
Died from a cerebral hemorrhage (stroke)
Replaced by VP Harry Truman
"Men will thank God on their knees a hundred years from now that Franklin D. Roosevelt was in the White House”
(NY Times Editorial; 1945) 8

10. Mussolini’s Death
Italian government wanted to punish Mussolini for war crimes
Tried to escape to Switzerland in German convoy
Caught by soldiers and executed April 28, 1945
Shot by firing squad, body hung in city where civilians beat, kicked, spat, and stoned his dead body.

13. Invasion of Berlin

14. Death of Hitler
The Allies surrounded Germany and it became clear the Axis powers would lose.
Hitler committed suicide in an underground bunker on April 30, 1945

17. War in Europe is over! Berlin fell to the Allies on May 2, 1945
Germany surrenders
May 8th: V-E Day (Victory in Europe)
Who is left?

18. War in Europe is over!!

20. WWII Animated Map
Prepare to be amazed…….

21. Review: Why did the Allies win in Europe?
Weakness of Axis Powers
Strengths of Allied Powers

22. Short/Immediate Effects
HOMEWORK – due Friday!
“The Effects of the Second World War”  pages
Take notes on long vs. short term effects (focus on cultural, political, economic!)
Short/Immediate Effects
Long Term Effects
Superpowers
Cultural Destruction
Economic Recovery (role of U.S. & Marshall Plan)
War Crime Trials
Cause of Cold War
Creation of the UN
Decolonization

23. Yalta Conference
February 1945 Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met at Yalta (Soviet Union) to discuss the postwar world
Formed the United Nations
Divided Germany and Berlin into four zones
Stalin obtained Poland if he promised to allow free elections
Stalin gained Pacific islands if he promised to declare war on Japan

26. KEEP IN MIND:
Stalin is gong to break these promises …….. COLD WAR!!!!